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- Amazon says it will invest more than €16 billion in Germany in 2027.
- Of that, €4.8 billion is for cloud data centres around Frankfurt.
- It is a one-year budget, close to the €15 billion Amazon says it spent in 2025.
- The 3,000 new jobs Amazon mentions were already announced on October 15.
- Cloud region
- A group of data centres in one area where a company rents out computing power.
- AWS
- Amazon Web Services, the part of Amazon that rents out computing power and storage.
- Sovereign cloud
- A cloud service built to keep data and control inside one country or region.
The German government hosted the Invest in Germany Summit in Berlin this week, to win money from companies. Amazon’s chief legal officer, David Zapolsky, announced the company’s plan there on Tuesday, October 20.
What Amazon plans
Amazon says it plans to invest more than €16 billion, or about $18 billion, in Germany in 2027. Of that, €4.8 billion is to expand AWS’s cloud region around Frankfurt, where Amazon has run data centres since 2014.
The rest goes to warehouses and logistics, the Amazon Leo satellite internet service and more than 15 German Prime Video productions by the end of 2027. Amazon also says it is opening a second robotics and AI research lab in Berlin.
Amazon gave no amount for the Leo service, the shows or the lab, heise reports. These figures are plans, not money already spent.
Amazon’s own figures for its spending in Germany. 2027 is a plan.
Less new than it looks
The €16 billion is a budget for one year. Amazon itself says it spent about €14 billion in Germany in 2024 and about €15 billion in 2025, so the plan is a step up, not a jump.
The more than 3,000 new jobs that Amazon mentions come from warehouse projects it had already announced on October 15. It did not say whether the total includes its older plan for a “sovereign” cloud in Brandenburg.
Germany’s week of pledges
The summit started on Monday with a declaration between the government and Nvidia on AI for industry. Chancellor Friedrich Merz spoke of €800 billion in pledges by 2028, Tagesschau reports. Economy Minister Katherina Reiche gave a much smaller total of €228 billion, counting only large projects.
Hesse’s state premier, Boris Rhein, welcomed the €4.8 billion for the Frankfurt area as a sign of trust in the region, Hessenschau reports.
Sources
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- 2Primary source · October 20, 2026Amazon investiert 2027 über 16 Milliarden Euro in Deutschland Amazon Deutschland
- 3Primary source · October 15, 2026Amazon übertrifft Investitionsmeilenstein von 100 Milliarden Euro und schafft mehr als 3.000 zusätzliche Arbeitsplätze in Deutschland Amazon
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- 5Research · October 20, 2026Amazon will 4,8 Milliarden Euro in Rechenzentren im Rhein-Main-Gebiet investieren Hessenschau (HR)
- 6Research · October 20, 2026Cloud und KI: Amazon will 2027 16 Milliarden Euro in Deutschland investieren heise online (dpa)
All amounts are Amazon’s plans, and the robotics lab rests on Amazon’s word alone. The two government totals differ, and both are the speakers’ own figures.
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